My Dad Wrote A... takes over the Apple Podcast chart

• My Dad Wrote A…, says @matt, “shows the value in going big to 'launch’ a new season. It’s a good way of reminding old listeners but also attracting new ones. The (UK) Apple Podcast Top 200 episode chart currently has over 60 (of their 80) episodes listed.”

• PowerPress, a Wordpress plugin for podcasters, is ten years old and is now powering somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 podcasts.

• Dan Misener posts about “product packaging for podcasts”, talking about metadata and artwork. (We covered a number of pieces yesterday about this, too.)

• RAIN is to produce a free webinar, The Power of Podcasts for National Brands: Case Studies in Ad Effectiveness. It’s presented by Midroll Media, and will be held in mid September.

• A podcasting studio has opened in Long Island NY, USA.

• Dan Franks from Podcast Movement is a guest on The Wolf Den this week.

• Money and Podcasts looks at Spanish podcasting’s attempts to monetise.

  
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• The development team of Pocket Casts is clearly focusing on the iOS and Android podcast app: they’ve just announced the closure of Pocket Weather Australia, a passion project from the team.

Jobs:

• Talent Relations Manager, for Be My Guest, remote working in the US.
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Listicles:

• 10 best crime podcasts (Teen Vogue)

Opinion:

• Is podcasting worth the effort? There is so little time and so many podcasts, argues Ken Mills in an article in Radio World.

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• The Spectator says that podcasts still have a long way to go to challenge the best of conventional radio.

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• Sam Sanders on Twitter just completed a 20-hour road-trip listening to podcasts, and he is not very happy with you.

Podcasts:

• Clancy Blaxland is a comedy set in a fictional town: born, says the Illawarra Mercury, in a Wollongong call centre.

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Event:

• A Pod Connection, Atlanta GA, US, October 6.

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